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Stories, poems and other writing which couldn't exist on paper, using the technology of the WebAs the visitor travels around an Adventure Island, descriptive writing for each area encourages you to explore further. Will you be able to survive, and leave the island, or will you remain forever ... trapped? Classes can use this hypertext tool to create their own interactive island adventure. Teachers do not need to know HTML as the tool creates everything. Browse the islands already created. Or contact us for a teacher's password to create your island. A hypertext/random story from Miss Leonard's class, Porchester Junior School, Nottingham, UK. Inspired by Michael Morpurgo's "Kensuke's Kingdom" (primary/secondary transition work), this is a tale of adventure - a whole class shipwrecked on a desert island! With 19 random beginnings and 17 random endings. Teachers' Notes included. (Added July 2003)
An interactive website story commissioned for the 1999 Cheltenham Festival of Literature. A tale of a Victorian kitchenmaid who encounters the crazy aliens from the planet of Pinkerello, it was begun by Jamila Gavin and completed by children from 26 schools in the UK, USA and Australia. Hosted by Kids on the Net. A group of children arrive on a new planet to start a new life. A story with choices for the reader, Chapter One by David Clayton. Kids on the Net invites teachers to work with their classes to complete the story (no knowledge of HTML required). Full instructions and teachers' notes are given. You can read the first contribution, from Tabubil International School in Papua New Guinea. Teeth and dead cats: randomised stories from Nottingham produced by children at the Experian Big 3 Book Award day 2003 and based on the prize-winning books. Also Through the Eyes Of: a transformation story with a random choice of endings. (See also The Lonely Island above) Teenagers from Nottinghamshire Young Writers developed the concept of Outlaws and have woven some unusual characters into a story of terrorism in internet chat rooms Jacob the Ant, a choose-your-own-adventure story; a hyperlinked snake poem; family tree poems; hyperlinked scary poetry with personification; and Through the Eyes of... where the reader chooses a random ending to our transformation story. 2000 was the International Year for the Culture of Peace. Every class in St. Augustine's School has interpreted the messages of Manifesto 2000 in their own way, including hyperlinked poems, an instant story, to animal kenning riddles, and lots of writing on peace themes. August 2003 The 9-13-year-old group from Nottinghamshire Young Writers have written a gamebook type story in which they bring Robin hilariously into modern Nottingham and Sherwood Forest as it is today. Friendship Web and Hunt the Leprechaun.
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